Doupo Continent: Pre-Paying My Way to Emperor
Chapter 56

A Slight Edge

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After watching the first day's elimination matches, Chen Xiao felt no stirrings in his heart at all.

Only when he drew a bye at the very end did he chuckle softly, feeling that his luck was quite good.

On the second day's elimination matches, including Chen Xiao, two hundred and one people competed, for a total of one hundred matches.

After yesterday's round of eliminations, the quality of today's fights had clearly improved. The most deadlocked among them even took more than ten minutes before victory and defeat were decided.

Though in the eyes of the strong, it still looked like children playing house, over the course of the entire day, at the very least, there were very few cases of someone being instantly defeated in one move.

And Chen Xiao still failed to get onstage today!

"The last one..."

"Profound Rank Class Nine, Chen Xiao, bye!"

Listening to the referee's announcement from the stage, an uproar broke out below.

Drawing a bye once could be explained by luck, but drawing byes in succession made it very easy for people's imaginations to run wild.

"Don't tell me this Chen Xiao is the child of some Elder? That luck is really enviable."

"Shh, brother, don't sit here making sarcastic digs. I specially went back and asked around yesterday. Guess what?"

"Say it or don't."

"Fine, it won't hurt to tell you. According to what I found out, this Chen Xiao is a new student who only enrolled this year. He's only twelve, yet he's already a Three Star Dou Ling. Do you still think there's a problem with the draw now?"

"Huh?"

Similar conversations took place in every corner of the square.

Very quickly, the students who had originally doubted the results of the draw let it go.

They had guessed

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